Agrilyst, which is officially launching in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield today, helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently by pulling in data from sensors in the greenhouse and information about crop yields and other metrics.
As Agrilyst CEO and co-founder Allison Kopf told me, the idea for the service came to her while she was working at BrightFarms, a venture-backed urban greenhouse operator based in New York City. She told me that even though she studied physics and wasn’t really looking for a job in agriculture, she “fell in love with this world because there was so much room for improvement and the industry is growing so fast.”
During her work, she was able to dig into the data side of the business, but was frustrated by the fact that there wasn’t quantitative data for everything and no integrated tools for analyzing all of the information operators were gathering from different tools.